[berkle4455]

The app payments go through the iOS mandated payment system. There are parental controls you can enable on a child’s device to restrict what can and cannot be purchased, notify the parent, etc. The kid just went around that and disabled those controls and/or figure out the parents unlock password.

This is part of why Roblox, Microsoft, and Epic pay Apple 30% of platform transactions to handle things like this.

[frumper]

Except Apple denied the refund. That isn't handling it. I had heard Apple was good about refunding purchases like this though, so it was surprising to read that.

[berkle4455]

Yep. And this goes back to my initial comment that this an an Apple thing. It happened on their payment ecosystem.